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Thanks Bill, life really won't be the once the inevitable (hybrid)
permathread, loop and limeric tracker's been implemented...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill de hÓra [mailto:bill@dehora.net]
> Sent: 24 April 2003 22:33
> To: Mike Champion
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Statistical vs "semantic web" approaches to
> making sense of the Net
>
>
> Mike Champion wrote:
>
> > What struck me is that the "AI" approach (I'll guess it makes heavy use
> > of pattern matching and statistical techniques such as Bayesian
> > inference) is working with raw text that the authors are deliberately
> > trying to obfuscate the meaning of to get past "keyword" spam filters,
> > and the Semantic Web approach seems to require explicit, honest
> markup.
> > Given the "metacrap" argument about semantic metadata
> > (http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm) I suspect that in general
> > the only way we're going to see a "Semantic Web" is for
> > statistical/pattern matching software to create the semantic markup and
> > metadata.
>
> It's an artifcial distinction, tho' we've been through here before:
>
> http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200207/msg01498.html
>
> There I linked to a paper about a hybrid architecture called
> InteRRaP, one project that helped consign the scruffy/neat debate in
> AI to irrelevance. It seems inevitable that similar hybrid
> architectures will appear on the web; RSS feeds, weblogs and search
> engines make a fine primordial soup.
>
> Bill de hÓra
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